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Your soul is the whole world.

Hermann Hesse

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice

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